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Artisanal production has often been interpreted as being characterized by the cultural and social singularity of producers, an approach that has given it an important place in ethnonarratives that speak of the particularity of certain groups and their worldviews. This essay proposes examining these objects from a distinct perspective –stereoscopically– by seeing them as ethnomerchandise. On the one hand, this entails undertaking an analysis of the processes through which the image that accompanies artisanal products when they are offered in tourist markets or to museums and collections is produced; processes understood here as involving over-fetishization. On the other, our approach demands understanding the profound link between ethnomerchandise with its producers and the dynamics of capital; the same link that the very appearance of the objects seems to conceal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents research on the production and trade of the gem stone amber from Chiapas, Mexico and discusses the social and cultural networks that emerge from this capitalist political economy system. The research looks at the amber trade from its place of origin in Chiapas to its sale at the Tucson Gem Show in Tucson, Arizona, analyzing amber production, circulation, and consumption. In its methodological approach, the article examines the local aspects of production and trade as well as implications on the global level as the amber trade crosses the U.S.-Mexico border, incorporating the concepts of transnationalism and globalization.

The article presents displays an analysis of the system of transport of load in the City of Mexico, from the systemic point of view considering economic, political, technical and social the variables that allow including understand the problematic one that at the moment faces in the mobility of merchandise in the City. It is a reflection of multidisciplinary character based on the qualitative method to explain and to include/understand the present situation of the transport of load in Mexico, within the context of the economic globalization to identify the deep nature of the dynamic structure of the transport of load in the City and the new form conceptualize to the transport of merchandise. One studies the behavior of the flows and infrastructure, of the road networks, the urban characteristics, the legal instruments in the policies of the transport, the problematic one of the load transport, as well as mobility and the different problems that the sector in relation to the city faces. The primary target of present article is to enunciate the reasons for which a system of articulated transport does not exist and the use of the load motor transport is privileged. Finally, according to the diverse analyzed variables one settles down in the conclusions that the analysis and the planning of the transports must be multi and interdisciplinary by nature with an integral vision to establish a balance between the transport ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]